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...good political correspondent, like a good politician, always has his eye on the next election. So the timing was right when Washington-based Laurence Barrett was named National Political Correspondent last January, just as the 1986 midterm election campaigns were getting under way. A 21-year veteran of TIME, Barrett provided analysis of the ambiguous voting trends for this week's ten-page special report on the election outcome...
...pursuit of that goal, the President this fall traveled to 16 states, waging the most vigorous midterm campaign by a President ever in an effort to save the endangered class of Republican Senators he had carried into office in 1980. A vote for these candidates, he said over and over, was a vote to preserve the revolution. The voters, as much as they loved the messenger, seemed unmoved by the message. They trickled to the polls to pick and choose among the local personalities they found appealing. In most of the hotly contested races for control of the Senate, these...
...negative ads and dearth of big issues also prompted a lot of people to sit this one out. According to Curtis Gans, director of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate, this year's turnout was the lowest since 1942 for a midterm election -- 37.3% of eligible voters -- and the third lowest in history. "This was the most ugly and vacuous campaign in recent memory," says he, "and the public responded accordingly...
...midterm election of 1982, when the Democrats captured an additional 26 Congressional districts, ended conservative dominance of the House. Because the Senate remained in Republican hands after the 1982 and 1984 elections, however, Ronald Reagan continued to enjoy valuable leverage over the legislature--enough to preserve the impression of accomplishment even when Administration positions were severely challenged. Not all Republican Senators have been pleased with the President's actions, but when Reagan's policies have been "saved" on Capitol Hill, it was the Republican majority in the Senate that made it possible. The outcome of Tuesday's Senateelections has brought...
...break the Republicans desperately need is a high turnout of party loyalists, a tough accomplishment in a midterm race. Unlike in past elections, Republican voters in the Reagan era include large numbers of young people and previously independent conservatives -- people who are not habitual voters. To get them to the polls, the G.O.P. has established telephone banks around the country that will call some 10 million likely Republican supporters before next Tuesday...